In an exclusive interview with the Daily News MDC Alliance Vice President, Tendai Biti said it is clear powerful politicians are behind Mashurugwi and he felt that the infamous gangs were being prepared to carry out a fresh genocide.
Biti also said an independent international judiciary commissioner is supposed to be set up to investigate the machete-wielding gangs that are terrorising citizens in many parts of the country.
Said Biti:
It is also clear that they are controlled by powerful people and the nation needs to understand more beyond the fact that they started in Kwekwe. We thus need to know and understand the connections they have with political parties, as well as who the owners of the mines that are at the centre of the wars are
The machete gangs’ agenda must also be established because some of us have a feeling that they are being prepared for a massive fresh Gukurahundi. This is how genocide was carried out in Rwanda in 1994, starting with the Hutus of the Interahamwe.
More people have been killed by the gangsters than those killed on August 1, 2018. They are so brazen and one gets a feeling that they must be operating with the backing of a very big political office. I mean, who can do what these people are doing, including killing a police officer? That doesn’t happen in Zimbabwe
Mashurugwi have headlines for weeks mostly for robbing and killing people in areas they operate from.
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